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A comprehensive look at the motivations behind UNSETTLED, the defining characteristics of the hyperghetto, and the relationship between refugees and the converging forces of colonial and class warfare.

Through the eyes of one woman, Ra Prohn, Eric Tang tells the story of an immigrant community’s survival and resistance in NYC “hyperghettos” created by US state terrorism directed at Black diasporic communities in the aftermath of slavery.

A few weeks before his book was released in October, Eric Tang sat down for a brown-bag lunch with staff and interns of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Tang talked about why he wrote the book, the greatest challenge he faced in writing it, and other wide-ranging topics.

In this Q&A, Eric Tang talks with Temple University Press publicist Gary Kramer about the value of publishing with a University Press and the books that were influential to him as a scholar and reader.